that will wrap it up for us this morning. thanks for joining us. we will see you back again tomorrow. >> absolutely. "cnn newsroom" with kyra phillips starts right now. we begin with actually we want to talk about a lot of ground we are cover thing morning. let's start with the -- let's go ahead and talk about the new developments now in the plot to bomb new york's transit system. three people linked to al qaeda now in custody. also, it has been l.a.'s nagging nightmare for 25 years. who is the grim sleeper killer? a little dna might have delivered him at last.

the lockerbie bomber was supposed to be dead months ago. not only is he still alive. he might be with us another ten more years. how could compassion backfire like that? we begin with breaking news. it had the intrigue like a 007 movie mystery. sultry female and russian connection. a spy ring case that is still moving fast. the ten alleged secret agents are in a new york federal courtroom today for arraign many and we learned the ten spy suspects are in plea talks right now. they could be deported as soon as tonight. susan candiotti joining us live by phone with more. susan? >> reporter: certainly the case moved around along so quickly since it first came on the radar. just within the last couple of weeks. now we are learning that -- from a source with detailed knowledge of what's been going on involved

in the investigation that not only are the plea talks under way in this spy case as we have been reporting, but things are moving so rapidly that pleas are expected today at the arraignment that's scheduled for this afternoon and that the ten defendants could be deported from the united states as quickly as tonight. you remember that the arraignment is scheduled for this afternoon. they were indicted in an unsealed indictment that became available in public. just yesterday. the defendants are charged with acting as unregistered foreign agents in the united states as well as conspiracy to commit money laundering. now what would happen to the children involved in this case are unclear. as you know, some of the defendants are married couples, they are from the soviet union originally. and some of them have children. and the question is would they stay behind? would they leave immediately with their parents? all of this unclear right now. kyra? >> i have a feeling we are going

to be learning a lot more, too, as the day continues and the story breaks even more. susan candiotti, thanks so much. another developing story we are following for you, three terror arrests halfway around the world. but they are critical to investigators right now here in the u.s. and in london. cnn's paula newton joining us from that area with the latest. paula? >> reporter: kerry a you know, we are starting to learn why in a new york city bomb plot, the -- foiled attack on the new york city subway system that happened last year, why they actually called that one of the most serious attempted attacks since 9/11. these three suspects, two arrested in norway, one in germany, are believed to be linked as well to that attack. also linked is a gentleman who was arrested yesterday here in britain. again, in connection with that attack. a lot of this being motivated by an indictment that was unsealed yesterday in the u.s. court. kyra, these arrests do come after more than a year of

surveillance. norwegian authorities saying they don't want to say any more about any details involved with the plot. just to say that they have these people under surveillance for quite some time. >> what other tools do the authorities use to crack this alleged al qaeda cell? do we know? >> reporter: beyond the surveillance, you know, we have been talking a lot about -- the new york city plot, two people have already pled guilty, in terms of ex-tracking information from them, that was helpful. what's going on in these investigations now is that they may take a cell phone and an e-mail account and literally tear it apart word for word and number for number. and track that down. we believe a lot of leads in this case originated from intelligence officials working all over the world. getting to these little phone numbers and e-mails and then doing the hard work on the ground to keep these people under surveillance in order for them to obtain evidence. again, norwegian authorities saying that they continue to have these people under surveillance. the only reason they april helpeded them now is because they feared then a risk to flee.

key here, they keep them under surveillance as long as possible, learning what they can about all of these threads that come together with this al qaeda plot that authorities believe originated in pakistan. >> paula newton. we will follow the story with you. the northeast is looking for some relief from the heat. ac and fans working overtime as people endure another day of triple digit temperatures. the pressure is on for utility companies to keep up with the increasing demand for power. cnn's jason carroll live in new york with more. jason? >> reporter: good morning. it is feeling a lot better here today. we feel a slight breeze. better here in new york city. even so, one heat related death reported in the state of maryland. the governor there telling the people to take whatever steps necessary to try to stay cool. back here in new york, we did spend time at con-edison's command center to see what steps they are taking to deal with the heat. day four of the northeast heat

wave brought some lower temperatures but not low enough in boston. >> one thing about people from south, we are not that bunch of whips. we will take it. >> reporter: record highs in philadelphia and wilmington, delaware, record sales of air conditioners in many new york city stores. >> i mean, they have been going as fast as they are coming in. >> reporter: the city's pools filling to capacity. >> it is refreshing and cool. and it is keeping us from passing out in the sun. >> reporter: demand for power, a concern in new york. con-edison has been running the emergency response center since tuesday. inside their war room, various departments work together to prevent blackouts. >> take a look around the room the center is broken up into different s logistics back here, customer service. back here, gas. we are told the center will stay open until the temperatures are back to normal. >> reporter: all the analysis

happening right over here. >> reporter: john oversees the entire operation. >> i look at this for us as round two. i think that this might be the last round of this fight. >> reporter: you are using these fight references. >> it is a fight. >> reporter: are you on defense at this point? are you on offense? where are you? >> that's a really good question. i think that right now we are on offense. >> reporter: some 5,700 customers are without power in new york city. the majority of the system is holding. thanks in part to the city's large office buildings and businesses heeding calls to help by reducing energy consumption. yet, the center's numbers show demand is still high. >> 12,491 megawatts. >> reporter: translate that. >> that's -- 12,500 million watts. one megawatt is enough to light a thousand homes. >> reporter: does that make you nervous? >> yes. >> reporter: the operation here

will run 24 hours a day until temperatures and demand begin to drop. you know, it was interesting to see how things run behind the scenes. i think probably a lot of lessons were learned from that massive 2006 blackout that hit the city. the workers you saw will be working 12-hour shifts until further notice. kyra? >> all right, jason. thanks so much. rob marciano working the heat, shall we say, for us. the temps, i mean, looks like a little bit better than yesterday. >> i think it is going to be a few degrees better, yes. that's the good news. but still starting things off in the upper 70s and lower 80s across parts of the northeast. 85 already in d.c. so we are probably not going to see the records we saw yesterday. but we are also not going to see thiscle front which will drop things by by 15, 20 degrees. that's going to be heading way too slow and won't get there until the weekends. not looking for a dramatic cooldown. maybe five to ten degrees cooler

today as opposed to yesterday. speaking of yesterday, 104. that was a record high in richmond. 104 in danville. philadelphia, 103. similar numbers in the new york city area. certainly gives you an idea of just how hot it has been. little cooler. there are a couple of showers that are trying to squeeze out of these clouds across the northeast but having very little success doing that. and there are more substantial rain showers developing across parts of texas. this is where tropical depression number two. it is heading towards brownsville and likely not going to strengthen into a tropical storm and tropical storm warnings posted for the extreme southern texas coastline. heavy rains will be the main threat with this. and that is going to produce even more flooding. fresh to the heels of hurricane alex which brought the rio grande to record stage as far as flooding goes. and we have more rain coming up for them today. >> thanks so much, rob. day 80 of the gulf oil

disaster. bp says it is pushing to stop the gushing oil sooner than later. managing director bob dudley says it could possibly be stopped by july 27th. however, he counters that statement saying that's in a perfect world with no interruptions. new orleans a federal appeals court taking up deepwater drilling. at issue, reinstating a six-month ban on drilling as the obama administration wants. or block the ban as offshore companies will argue. those choppy seas that held up cleanup operations may finally be calm today. that could allow skimmers back in the gulf to collect oil. some business essay long the gulf coast desperately trying to stay afloat despite the oil disaster. take the ship and shore store in dauphin island, alabama. it has been around since the 1950s and it is a mainstay in that community. it survived storm after storm. but since the oil disaster, business is now down 50%. still the widow of the store's owner is determined to keep that

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there were many. it is believed deborah jackson was the first to die. the 29-year-old cocktail waitress left a friend's home august 10, 1985. her body was found days later. jackson was shot to death. over the next two decades, he would take many more lives. all but one were black women. some working as prostitutes. most were shot to death. >> he would spot them and does spot them, victimize them, and then just discards their bodies in alleys like they are trash. he is a monster. >> reporter: a monster that detective dennis killcoin pursued for years. and he and his team believed it would only be a matter of time. >> we got this beautiful dna profile, all these dashes and dots and no name or address or face to go with it. >> reporter: now they say they do. lonny david franklin jr. the 57-year-old was arrested wednesday in front of his home

in south l.a. >> we made an arrest here in the 1700 block of 81st street of the suspect that has been known to many as the grim sleeper. >> reporter: he is suspected of killing at least 11 women. but for now will only charge him with ten murders. he doesn't have a lawyer and there there has been no plea. police say he is the killer they call the grim sleeper. a name coined because of the as long gaps between killings. news of the arrest reached the family of alicia alexander who on september 11, 1988, asked her father if he needed anything from the store. she was found murdered days later. >> my body, a good relief. >> reporter: 19 years after alicia was taken, franklin allegedly claimed his last victim. peters was discovered on january 1, 2007. shot in the back and dumped in a garbage bag. a quarter after century of

killing is over. and now police say that they can finally put a name to the grim sleeper. randi kaye, cnn, new orleans. >> is sacramento bee reports on a letter leased yesterday by the state attorney general's office. agents did not act after observing and speaking to dugard and one of her daughters. at the time the agents were checking in on the parole's rapist philip garrido. besides not asking about his relationship to dugad, the agents failed to locate the back shed where she and her daughters were kept. he is accused of fathering dugard's two daughters. california lawmakers last week approve ad $20 million settlement award just for jacee. bobby jindal signs into law a gun allowing guns in churches.

people who have past training and background checks can bring concealed weapons to houses of worship as part of a security force. the pastor must announce in church or through a newsletter that there will be armed people on church grounds. the bill sponsor says churches in pry crime areas need extra protection from the bad guys. an 8-year-old minnesota boy who doesn't need a gun has advice that's taking a stand against criminals. logan fisher says his life was changed when bad guys broke into his home and stole his stuff. this young crime fighter turned a negative into a positive. he went before the town council with ideas on fighting crime including having a s.w.a.t. truck drive around town to scare off those so-called bad guys. we are still working breaking news surrounding the spy ring case. ten alleged secret agents in a new york federal courtroom for arraignment. we learned that they are in plea talks right now and they could be deported as soon as tonight. [ male announcer ] looks clean.

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beginning with breaking news. this is the source. ten suspected russian spies in the u.s. could plead guilty today. the ten could be deported as soon as tonight. this development comes amid reports of a possible trade of the accused russian spies or spies convicted in russia. authorities announced the arrest of three people with alleged ties to al qaeda. suspected of planning attacks in new york and the uk. two were arrested in oslo. one in germany. the search for two missing tour boat passengers in philadelphia now a recovery mission. the tour boat sank after being hit by a barge yesterday. all other passengers and crew made it to safety. the northeast heat wave will hold through this afternoon. two deaths have been blamed on the oppressive heat. there have been scattered power outages in some states. assignment for the troops. complete an online survey about repealing the don't, and don't tell policy. this just in. some troops are being told don't take the survey.

new developments this morning. 400,000 troops are being asked to take an online survey about repealing the military's don't ask, don't tell policy. the questionnaire focuses on the impact of the ban and there's pretty specific and intimate questions. but now a legal group representing gay and lesbian troops is telling them to not take the survey. more on that, live to barbara starr at the pentagon. barbara? >> fast moving developments this morning. as you just reported the service members' legal defense network the major group over the years that has represented gay and military -- gay and lesbian service members in the military in their legal cases when the pentagon tries to boot them out of military service, they have

just issued a statement saying don't take this survey. and that what they say -- quote, at this time, sldm cannot recommend that lesbian, gay or bisexual service members participate in any survey being administered by the department of defense. the reason, they say, is that this survey cannot promise confidentiality and privacy to gay or lesbian service members, they still could face prosecution if they are inadvertently outed by taking the survey. the survey is all about how the service members feel that -- how they would react if there is repeal of the don't ask, don't tell policy and law, how should it be implemented across the military branch essay cross the service. so there is about 100 questions, some very personal about how would you feel if gays and lesbians could openly serve in the military especially in a war

zone. here's some questions they asked about all of that. for example, tell us about the impact on unit morale or readiness. f the commander of your unit was openly guy or lesbian. in a war zone. if you have to share a room, bathroom, open base showers which is what happens in a war zone, of course, how would you react if there were openly gay or lesbian members of your unit? would you just carry on with your military life as usual? would you have some problem with it? what would you do about all of it? basically, would repeal of don't ask, don't tell have such an impact on military service that you might no longer be willing to serve? what they want to do is get this across the board view of how people feel about it so that they know what they are dealing with and if and when the law is repealed. this morning those that represent gay and lesbian service members say that they are very skeptical. kyra? >> barbara starr, live from the pentagon. thanks.

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for a day at least wall street was pretty much popping. the stock market actually staged its biggest rally since may. christine romans will tell us hope reply what we can expect today. what do you think, christine? are you checking the numbers there? >> yes. i am. the futures turned around. you know, really, the gloom parted just briefly yesterday. a big rally in the dow and after two months of some really painful losses, you had optimism, optimism yesterday, maybe we got too bloomy about the economy. a good rally yesterday. i like to look at the s&p 500, as you know, because that's what's most likely to be in your 401(k). this is the s&p 500 so far for this year. yesterday it was up 3%. that's a good move for one day. since the april peak, though, it is down 13%.

and year to date, it is down 6%. so for the year, you are probably negative on your stock investments. a pause in that gloom yesterday. futures are pointing to maybe a little bit of a bounce this morning. i will tell you why. we just got a jobless claims number that showed 454,000 people filed for jobless claims in one week. that's a lot of folks. it is not as many as they feared. that's why futures are higher. >> the jump yesterday, how does that roll into long-term effect? >> yes. that's -- that's the big question. you know, we are still arguing about whether this is just a slow recovery in the economy or the recovery is so slow that the economy is going to shrink again. that's a big debate that's happening. it probably -- that debate doesn't matter to you and me sitting a home trying to figure out, you know, how our job and house and our own retirement is going to -- is going to recover. but at least in the very near term, you are finding there's

stability of the stock market yesterday, maybe today. we have a lot of ground to cover still. we have a lot of chuck data to look through to figure out if things are getting better and how much better they are getting or if it will be a disappointing recovery. >> we will cover all that ground with you. we are here to give thank you air time. christine romans, thanks. even if your tax bill to uncle sam hasn't gone up, chances are good your state is taking a bigger chunk out of your wallet. the state budgets are stretched extremely pin this we have been talking about that for a while. higher taxes for a lot of us. >> unfortunately, yes. 36 of 50 states raised taxes or fees in the last two years for a combined total of $25 billion. that's according to the national association of state budget officers. more than $3 billion in new state taxes are estimated for next year. so who is feeling the most pain? "u.s. news & world report" looked at tax increases since 2009. proposed hikes for next year and

divided it by each state's population to get a per person calculation. here is the breakdown. new yorkers are taking the biggest hit. paying $419 more per person. california comes in next at $312 more per person. delaware, connecticut and wisconsin round out the top five. but taxes are not rising everywhere. they are actually falling in a few states. for example, in north dakota, people are paying $301 less. so not all of us feeling that pain equally. >> is this per person calculation really fair? as we talked about -- not everyone pay it is same taxes. >> that's true. some groups are getting hit harder than others. for example, several states have raised significant remember taxes. so only smokers are feeling that one. and many new taxes target high income earners. oregon and hawaii have the highest rate there. 11% on income above $250 thousand and $200,000

respectively. california and rhode island have the next highest rates. the big earners in rhode island will soon be getting a break. in january, the top rate will drop to just below 6%. and the hope is that it will attract more businesses and create more jobs. which really illustrate it is catch-22 that the states are facing. they have to raise taxes to fill those budget holes. you raise them too much and ricks having people and jobs move out of the state. >> thanks. terminal cancer patient beats the dire diagnosis and could live many more years. when would that be bad news? when the patient is responsible for the deaths of 270 people. we are talking about a case of compassion that backfired and asking why a terrorist that was supposed to be dead months ago is still alive.

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it is hard, all the intrigue. well, it had rather all the intrigue like a 007 movie mystery. a spy ring case that's still moving pretty fast. the ten alleged secret agents are in a new york federal courtroom today for arraignment. we learned that the ten spy suspects are in plea talks right now. they could be deported as soon as tonight. a lawyer is telling us that the case could be resolved soon and right now it looks like the defendants will plead guilty and will be sentenced to time served but that's not written in stone

yet. there's already been a talk of a spy swap, exchanging the suspects here for convicted of spying for russia on the u.s. one suspect stands out. we are talking about anna chapman. she could be the most overexposed alleged spy ever. racy pictures of her and racy details about her sex life are now out there for anyone to see and read. chapman's not talking about the spy case but she has plenty to say, though her lawyer, anyway, is saying that and talking about all of the steamy stuff. here's cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: the attorney for accused russian spy anna chapman tells cnn she's aware that racy photos of her have been published by the british tabloid "news of the world." that paper says it got the pictures from her former husband, alex chapman. who, according to the tabloid, also dished about what he claimed was her adventurous sex life. we reached anna chapman's lawyer by phone in new york. what's her reaction to that?

>> di discussed witness miss chp pan. she was 21 years old when she got married to alex. he asked her to pose for some photos and she believed the photos were to be used for private purposes. she is shocked that he has kept the photos for four years after their divorce. and she is disappointed in his betrayal. >> reporter: contacted by cnn, the publicist for chapman's ex-husband said he couldn't do an interview with us, citing his need for rest. alex chapman had spoken with british newspapers including "the daily telegraph." the publicist, max clifford did talk to us. clifford said he didn't know if alex chapman gave the photos to news of the world or not. clifford relayed what alex chapman told the papers about the demise of his four-year marriage to the accused spy. >> as the time went by, it is a years went by, she came increasingly distant. and she seemed to be

increasingly enthusiastic to go to these parties, launches, gatherings, where the rich and fa famous were. >> reporter: anna chapman's attorney did not comment on that but denies other claims by her ex-husband. including one that her father worked for the old soviet spy service, kgb. >> her father does not work for the kgb. he is an embassy official who has worked in the past in zimbabwe and kenya, not exactly locations for kgb officials to be sent. >> reporter: when we asked robert baum if she denies the spying charge against her, she had so far nothing has been disclosed to them about the government's evidence so they are not making any comments about the charges. baum says anna chapman is having a difficult time emotionally right now. he says she is being held in solitary confinement, in her cell 23 hours a day. let out one hour a day for exercise. he says she is allowed novicetors aside from him.

no phone calls and no access to tv or any other media. brian todd, cnn, washington. top stories, beginning with the developing story we are following for you right now. norwegian authorities have announced the arrest of three people with alleged ties to al qaeda. they are suspected of planning attacks in new york and the uk. two were arrested in oslo. one in germany. the northeast heat wave will hold on through this afternoon. two deaths have been blamed or the heat and there have been scattered power outages in some states. it was a rant yesterday. we talked about lindsay lohan, her jail sentence, how a lot of us basically have no sympathy for her weepy mascara running self. jay leno was wondering what the heck is wrong with her, too. he zeroed in on her unbelievable four-letterman cure. >> how stupid was this?

yesterday while in court lindsay lohan had the obscenity "f.u." written on the nail of her middle finger. it is your middle finger. it is already an obscenity. isn't that redundant? is that to remind you? did you not know? oh, i'm not -- this is true. here is the real story. take a look. >> i completed my stay and will continue to be drug-free. i don't do drugs. and then the urine sample came out positive for cocaine. >> this is real. her hand. we had to blot it out. no, no, no. now, yeah. watch what the judge had on her hand. you are going down. look at that. that is a tough judge.

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a man with terminal prostate cancer. three months to live, makes in kind of miraculous recovery. it turns out he could live ten years or longer. for 99.99% of the world, that would be great, inspiring news. sickening and cruel we are talking about the lockerbie bomber. abdel baset al megrahi, the guy convicted in the pan am flight 103 bombing over lockerbie, scotland, was sent home a year ago. doctors had given him three months to live. so scottish officials sent him back home to libya. the justice secretary explained that decision last year. >> he is a dying man. he can show compassion to the

victims. that does not mean we should lure ourselves, debase ourselves, or abandon our values. he was justly convicted. >> it turns out they sent megrahi home to live. megrahi's release was hugely controversial and condemned in the u.s. and the uk. remember the 189 victims were american? investigating the resxlees editorial in the bloeb says that if there were any doubt that the decision was a grave injustice, m megrahi's new lease on life settles it. how could doctors that diagnosed megrahi gotten it so wrong? we are talking about that with a

prostate cancer expert. at do you think, doctor? was this a misdiagnosis or is there always a chance that a miracle like this can happen for a patient? >> probably it is not not a misdiagnosis. prostate cancer is known to have a prolonged course. many patients live many years with prostate cancer. what determines how long a patient is going to live is patient's age, stage of disease, what kind of treatments he received and other mosh bitty and performance status. that means the patient may have other illnesses that affect survival. it's important to put all of that information together when someone gets a prognosis or how long a patient may live after a diagnosis is made. >> so, how unusual is something

like this? i mean, how often have you seen something like this happen? and have you had to tell a patient, you know what, it doesn't look like you have much longer, but miraculously, somehow they defy the odds? >> it doesn't happen very often, but there are patients who are not expected to live very long sometimes respond to therapy very well. they may receive radiation or hormone therapy or chemotherapy and have a very good response to treatment, so they live much longer than expected. >> you know, within the doctor world and i'm sure you've talked about this, too, about the power of mind over body and i know you don't want to editorialize on this story but you wonder how can this guy live with himself after he did what his did. what could be going on in his mind. is it possible that he's lying in that hospital bed saying, i don't want to die, i don't want

to die, i don't want to die, and it's having an impact on how long he lives? >> well, mental attitude and psychology, of course, is very important, one of the very important factors on longevity, patients who have a positive attitude and they do everything possible to live and to beat the disease, they are more likely to have a better outcome than patients who give up, who stop helping themselves or who stop other people from helping them. so, i think, psychology and attitude may have a major impact on how long a person lives. >> final question. allegedly he was going to die and he was going to die soon. now doctors are saying he could live ten years or more. how do you even determine something like that? >> in order to determine how long a person can live, as i said, you need information regarding the stage of the disease.

the more advanced the stage of the disease, the less likelihood of living a long time. for example, patients with prostate cancer who have had the spread, who have already failed therapy and chemotherapy don't typically live that long, but patients who are new think diagnosed with prostate cancer, even if they have advanced disease, sometimes can live years with appropriate treatment. so a treatment is also a very important factor. if a patient receives appropriate treatment, they can live a long time with prostate cancer. >> as you you can imagine, critics are saying, what did doctors really know or not know, seeing that he is surviving and could live longer have people questioning the diagnosis. interesting perspective. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> you go ahead and weigh in. tell me if you think that killers should be released on compassionate grounds. light up the blog at

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carly simon or the rockets. let's talk about lebron james, two-time mvp and never led the cavaliers to a championship. now we are talking about an hour special on espn. >> keep in mind, michael jordan did not win a championship in his first several season with the chicago bulls. lebron james is a stud. he's the guy everybody wants to have on his team. when you say, who are the top two players in the nba, it always comes down to kobe bryant, lebron james. everybody wants him. so, even i -- >> i think he's been -- you're breaking up, roland. did we lose him? see, he should have worn a different jersey and cap. i think that's what the problem is. we're going to hopefully get

back to roland and talk more about lebron james. we will talk about it this hour and nokes hour, too. let's talk about the gulf oil disaster. we're going to bring up -- we're working to get some live pictures for you out of theodore, alabama, where the national incident commander admiral thad allen is going to hold a news conference on the cleanup operation following this gusher right here. we're going to monitor the developments and bring you the latest. real quickly, here's what we know on day 80. bp is pushing to stop the gushing oil sooner than later. bob dudley saying it could possibly be stopped by july 27th but couches the statement saying that's in a perfect world with no interruptions, and in new orleans, a federal appeals court will take up deepwater drilling, the six-month ban on drilling that the obama administration wants or block the ban as offshore companies will argue.

the choppy seas may be calm today that could allow skimmers back in the gulf to collect the oil. other big story, that heat wave moving south. it's already there. >> where it should be, right? >> it's not moving. it's there, embedded. >> sure is, kyra. some of the temperatures over the past couple days pretty impressive as far as where we've been and where we're going. century mark yesterday in new york again for the second day in the row and here are some of the numbers as far as the record highs. richmond, virginia, 104, philadelphia 103, baltimore, maryland, 101. central park got up to a cool 100 degrees measured in shade, not including humidity. felt worse than that. the core heating sliding down into the south and southeast. this cool front, which this time of year would bring 15, maybe 20 degrees of cooling is moving way too slow to cool things off

rapidly across the northeast. the northwest, meanwhile, portland to seattle, anywhere from 90 to 100 degrees. drier and not much humidity. it's hot because there are not many air conditions units in washington. 96 degrees in raleigh, and that's where the core of the heat will sink. this will be the warmest day of the year in places like alabama, georgia and south and north carolina. as far as air travel delays, d.c. metro over after hour, philadelphia same thing because of haze. showers are trying to develop in new york city area and long island. they may get some outflow from that to potentially cool you off but that is about it. a lot of outflow and cooling off from rain with this tropical system. this is a tropical depression number two, centered about there, about 60 or 70 miles

southeast of brownsville. not very organized, obviously. doesn't look like it will develop into a tropical storm. slight chance of this happening. makes land fall this afternoon and bring with it heavy rain, four to eight inches of rainfall. maybe as much as ten inches. the rio grande is flooding, flood stages we haven't seen in over 30 years and they're going to get more on this. shouldn't affect the oil spill too much but it will affect southeast texas with the flooding they already had to endure whiff hurricane alex. may become bonnie before the day is done but it won't become a hurricane. >> tharchs, rob. well, it has all of the intrigue of a 007 movie, russian connection. a spy ring that is moving fast right now. the ten alleged secret agencies are in a new york federal courtroom for an arraignment and we've learned they are in plea

talks and they could be deported as soon as tonight. cnn national correspondent susan candiotti in new york with the latest. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that arraignment is scheduled for this afternoon, and you're right, things do seem to be moving very quickly now. we are hearing from sources, including one that has close details to the investigation, closely linked to it, telling us think may all be resolved as quickly as tonight. two people are telling us that, in fact, pleas could be entered and are expected to be entered today at that arraignment and the deportations could happen as early as today. the indictments were unsealed yesterday. that is formal charges by a grand jury. all of the defendants charged with acting as federal agents but unregistered in the united states, acting on behalf of russia, and then there is also a conspiracy charge to commit money laundering.

now, as we understand it, the plea would likely just simply be working in the united states as unregister eed agents and then this would be worked out that they would be moved out of country. this comes as talks of a major spy swap is under way. additionally, what would happen to the children involved in this case? remember, some of these are married couples. all of that remains unclear, kyra. >> what's your take? why do you think this is moving so fast and we're getting these developments in so quickly? >> reporter: well, certainly there could be an element of politics involved in this. we have been reporting for days now that this issue has come up between representatives of the state department and russia so there could be an element of that big picturewise, of course, looking at the relationship between russia and the united states. so that could play a role in all of this. because it's coming together so

quickly, that certainly is highly unusual, but if there is an attempt here to resolve this case quickly, to arrange a spy swap in relation to all of this, in connection with all of this, then that would certainly help explain it. >> got it. susan, thanks so much. los angeles might be able to sleep easier. dna might finally have unmasked its grim sleeper killer. that's why we created the tide "loads of hope" program, a free laundry service that provides clean clothes to families affected by disasters. [ woman ] it feels so good to be able to know that i've got clean clothes. you don't know how very basic essentials are until you have none. ♪ this is what gives us hope. [ female announcer ] you too can join us by purchasing a tide vintage t at tideloadsofhope.com. is difficult to attain.

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it could be a huge break in a nightmare that has nagged los angeles for 25 years. an arrest in the so-called grim sleeper case. that nightmare might finally be put to rest thanks to dna testing. cnn's randi kaye has more on the arrest, the victims and the victims who say they're finally closer to justice. >> reporter: he preyed at night, trolling the streets of south central l.a. for victims, and there were many. it's believed deborah jackson was the first to die. the 29-year-old cocktail waitress left a friend's home on august 10th, 1985. her body was found days later. jackson was shot to death. over the next two decades, he would take many more lives, all but one were black women. some working as prostitutes. most were shot to death. >> he would spot them and does spot them, victimize them and then just discards their body in

alleys like they're trash. he is a monster. >> reporter: a monster that detective dennis kilcoyne pursued for years, and he and his team believed it would only be a matter of time. >> we have this beautiful dna profile, all of these dashes and dots and this is that but there's no name or address or face to go with it. >> reporter: now they say they do. lonnie david franklin jr. he was arrest in front of his home in south l.a. >> we made an arrest in the 17th block of 81st street. >> reporter: he's suspected of killing at least 11 women but for now police will own loy charge him with ten murders. he doesn't have a lawyer and there's been no plea but police say he is the killer they called grim sleeper, a name coined because of the long gaps between killings. news of the arrest reached the family of alicia alexander, who

on september 11th, 1988 asked her father if he needed anything from the store. she was found murdered days later. >> my body just -- it's such a good relief that i found i had. >> reporter: 19 years after alicia was taken, franklin allegedly claimed his last victim. janesha peters was found on jan 1st, 2007, shot in the back and dumped in a garbage bag. a quarter of a century of killing is over and police say they can finally put a name to the grim sleeper. randi kaye, cnn, new orleans. >> former chief of the land and current city council member bernard parks joining me by phone in reaction to this case. council member parks, i remember when you were back on the force. this is a case you remembered well, a case you wanted to solve, and you've never left paying attention to it.

that's for sure. your reaction once you found out that this evidence might have led to the actual killer? >> you know, yesterday, kyra, when i found from chief beck that they had the suspect in custody, i was just overwhemd in the fact that all of this work under dennis kilcoyne and his team, the effort of clear channel to assist us, the reward money, the repetitive news conferences to highlight this case, the first thing i thought about were the parents and families would finally be able to come to whatever closure that they could in that knowing that there's going to be justice in the loss of the life of their loved ones. >> and you talk about the money that was put toward finding this guy just recently, and you took that money and you put it toward a massive billboard in los angeles and i can't remember if had you more than one. you'll have to tell me.

tell me why you were so passionate about finding the se serial killer. >> in my life you have so many people who are preying on the community and this was over a 25-year period. we were fortunate that clear channel actually volunteered and came on board in 2008 and began to put billboards up, and they increased the number and they began to allow us to use their electronic boards that were close to freeways, but the reward money that the city put up was basically unprecedented. it was $500,000 to deal with the cases that were in the city, and just very recently, we renewed that reward motion in council, and each time we did that, we brought family members, and the decks would advise the public of the new information they it and what was fortunate every time we

would do this, we would amplify the number of leads and contacts that the people would have with that team of detectives. >> let's talk about that. let's talk about the laptd task force and all of those leads that came forward. he's what's so fascinating. i want to talk more about lonnie david franklin, 57 years old, what you know about him and what you know about him now. the evidence actually came from a slice of pizza. explain how this happened and how this second family tree search led to lonnie david franklin jr. >> the information that i have. we're going to get more of a briefing this morning is that there's a new process with dna that allows you to search for family members in the dna bank, data bank and earlier this year my office and myself contacted jerry brown to get permission to use that. the detectives asked for it, and what they did, actually, is that

they found a connection in the data bank that was actually his son, which then led them after some investigation to determine that the son obviously was too young to be the suspect. it led them to the father and after some investigation, they actually were able to obtain a direct dna sample from the suspect, which then became the perfect match. >> wow. what do we know about lonnie david franklin? do we know anything else about his history or his past? has any information been retrieved from his son? anything you can tell us? >> i will be at a briefing today at 10:45 to get some of that information. my understanding is that he lives in the immediate area of some of the bodies that were dumped and from listening to the news last night, he is a person that people were shocked about

that he was a regular person in the community that did repair work on people's cars and basically was someone that did not bring attention to himself. so a lot more will come out about him and his past. not only is it unique that we are talking about a serial murderer but the length of time that he was able to -- in fact it was like 12 or 13 years between incidents at one time. all of that is the type of thing that i'm sure the decks are poring through. from seeing tv last night, they were serving search warrants. >> we're looking at that now, council member parks. we're looking at video from his home in south l.a., and have you heard of anything they might have retrieved from the home? and kind of put your police cap

back on for me back when you were on the beat. what is it they are looking for? what are they going through? what are they hoping to find? >> i think their number one mission there is to find evidence that would link him closer to those cases in addition to what they currently have. and we know from some suspects, they like to recover trinkets from their crime. they may be evidence of the victims that are there, either samples or clothing or articles. i'm sure they're looking for anything that can possibly further connect him to these crimes, and if there are other crimes. because these are the 11 we know about. the key now is are there other crimes, and when he gets the exposure and his photo becomes visible to the public, there will be other people that will

call and say -- >> right. >> whether they thought he was connected to something else. so this is where they're doing the real hard police work. the technology has done its job and the real hard police work of sifting through evidence and making sure it is booked properly so you can put on a case before the court and come up with a successful prosecution. >> i know this a huge coup for the land. we are going to learn more about it, lonnie david franklin age 57. police say they have their man, a man they believe terrorized the los angeles area for more than two decades. council member parks, please update us about this arrest of this suspect. >> thank you very much for your interest in this case.

>> always have been since i was a reporter there more than a decade ago. thank you so much, as i like to call, ugh chief. thanks, chief. >> bye bye. >> you can go to cnn.com. there is a detailed interactive section there about this case, details of this case, but as you just heard, we are following this story about dna leading to the arrest of what police are saying is the grim sleeper serial killer in los angeles. think no one can fix your busted iphone or ipad or itouch? this guy says he can. meet the fix-it geek getting business from around the globe.

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panthers party are in military style uniforms outsite a philadelphia polling place, one of them with a night stick. >> hi, i'm here at 1221 fairmont in philadelphia and there's a guy with a billy club right here. so, dpouf any problems here? what's going on? everything okay? >> everything's fine. >> what's the problem? >> i'm making sure. >> why are you at 1220 fairmont? >> i'm a media guy. >> who are you with? >> university of pennsylvania. >> do you have identification? >> no. who are you with? >> security. >> okay. i have a poll watcher certificate so i can go inside. >> wondering why you came up taking pictures? >> what? >> i wondered why everybody's taking picks. that's all. >> i think you might be a little intimidating that you have a stick in your hand. that's why. >> who are you to decide? >> that's a weapon.

that's why i'm worried. >> who are you to decide. >> i'm a concerned citizen. >> so are we. that's why we're here. >> okay but you have a night stick in your hand. >> you have a camera phone. >> i have a camera phone which is not a weapon. >> i think i'm going to call the police. >> now, this video and this story got us talking about the new black panthers, a group now classified as an active hate group by the southern poverty law center and the anti-defamation league. here's why. >> we keep begging white people for freedom! no wonder we are not free! your enemy cannot make you free, fool! you want freedom, you have to kill some people! you are going to have to kill some of their babies! let us get our act together! >> that is from a new black panthers rally in philadelphia. we want to make a point that the new black panthers movement is

in no way affiliated with the black panthers of the civil rights era. this is the original black panthers. we thought taking a look back at the 1960s movement would help us all put this in better perspective. bobby seale is a founding chairman of the original black panthers joining us live from oakland. great to see you. >> good morning. >> first of all, your reaction, if you don't mind, to the cell phone video and these new black panthers standing there in front of the polling station. do you believe that was voter intimidation? >> yes, to some degree it was. they misunderstood. they are supposed to have a candidate on the ballot or somebody they support that relates to their arguments tore change they want. rather than having a club or something like that, it's a misrepresentation of what we were about. i ran for mayor of oakland, california state assembly.

we put people on the ballot. that was part of our thing. we were some of the most profound grass roots community organizers in the country at the time for those days. >> i want to go deeper into that difference, and the fact that you did run for office and you were so much about making change verse inciting hate and i want to ask you. the new black panthers declined to come on air with you today. i did reach out, and they declined to have this discussion. so with that point made, how do you feel about the fact that they are building off your legacy? they even have your book, "seize the time" listed as a book that new black panthers should read. in addition, testify a ten-point plan, just like tu a ten-point plan. they use a lot of the same language except for one thing that i noticed, the black panthers from your time, the black panther party you founded said all power to all the people and that's what was listed in

your ten-point plan. the new black panther party plan uses some of the same language but says all of the people of color have been subjected to the white man's wrath. i look at your plan and i see a huge difference between that and the new black panther party ten-point plan. >> our program was about all power to all people. we started in the african-american community and became a profound organization. our principles, we were never what you called xenophobic black nationalists. we were not separatists. that was not the name of the game. i created this. this organization came out of my heart, mind and soul. black community unit, yes, but only as a catalyst to help humanize the world, a very practical progress guessive human being that wanted to work with us, in coalition with us, other ethnic groups, asian, purity reeken. we crossed all racial lines and

ethnic lines and said all power to all of the people because we were trying to get rid of institutionalized racism in america, and running for political office is one method of trying to do that. to get into political office to change laws that's on the books. this is largely what's happening. i mean, i have a former black panther party members, bobry rush is a united states congressman, another one was none other than congresswoman barbara lee, and they stand up. these are stand-up people that we were fighting for constitutional democratic human rights, economic parity et cetera that we stood for in the 1960s. >> with that point, which is exactly the point i wanted you to make, i want to you listen to king shamir shabsz speaking to a rally and i want to you liften and get your feedback. >> we didn't come out here to

play the game. it's too much serious business going on in the black community to go out here sliding through south street with white dirty crack whos and we call ourselves black men with african garb? what's wrong with you black men? >> how does that make you feel? >> well, i mean, it's just that old xenophobic kind of rhetoric, you know. a xenophobic rhetoric that turns into sort of a kind of racist rhetoric rather than anything constructive. we said the only true culture to hold on to was a peoples revolutionary culture. to put the power back in the hands of the people. that's what's necessary to be held onto rather than making absurd, racial, categorical remarks. that's not what it's about, you know what i mean. if they use my book, they should

read page 69 which says why we are not racist. i state there and in 1970 when i wrote the book as a political prisoner at the time, we will never, ever stoop to the low skuv vi level of the mentality of a racist to hate another person because of the color of their skin or ethnicity. that's not the goal objective. the goal objective is human liberation and the greater community cooperation of humanism. the goal objective is to get rid of institutionalized racism, and, for instance, beaggregate supporter, obama. is a representative of us having gotten rid of a large aspect of institutionalized racism here in america. >> final thought, looking back at the pictures on your website that reminded me of what you made happen, the free breakfast program, the youth institutes, the free ambulance service. just looking back at this images, so different, bobby, from the images we see from

within the new black panther party. are you concerned about how the new black panther party is affecting your legacy and the good things you did, as you say, not only for the african-american community but for all? >> well, the problem with the young people -- the new black panthers have been around since 1989 out of dallas, texas, originally, and the old black panthers called me up, ph.d.s and stuff, and they said you have to do something about this because these guys are distorting what we are about. they don't understand it. the new blath panthers have never put up one of these kinds of programs. the programs have unified the people in the community, unified their electoral power in the community, and when you do that, then you're doing a heck of a lot more because you're going to the core. you're going to the law books, to the city charters, to the legislative framework that made the laws in the first play.

when rosa parks wa forced to move to the back of the bus, there was a law on the books that said that. the objective is to change that law and that's the way you change institutionalized racism in america. we got attacked and defended ourselves. i had 28 dead black panther party members by the end of december but who steps in, the united states congress. finally we got ted kennedy and senator church to step in and put the police on the hot seat about running around attacking the blath panther party members. there were no more shoot-outs after that and we went on to run for political office, run programs, and that is what evolving human liberation is truly about. >> bobby seale, founder of the original black panthers, not to be associated with the new black panther movement. what an honor to talk to you today and what a great discussion. i really appreciate your time, bobby. >> thank you.

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and it's about to move on shore, kyra. down across brownsville, this thing is about 30 miles off the shore now, and you see the rotation of it. right now, the center of it right around there and all of this rain is rotating. that's going to be the main

focus is the rainfall because the rio grande river is at unusually high levels. we're at floo stage already and will get more rainfall, 4 to 8 inches on top of what they received. this will happen in the next couple of hours, official landfall. it also means that we will not see disdevelopment into a name storm, tropical storm bonnie. bonnie will live to fight another day. tropical depression number two about to come on shore in south texas and will bring rains and potential flooding. tony harris, give me the song. ♪ he's playing panel >> i think i like tony better. >> are we going to talk basketball? >> we are talking basketball. >> now or after the break. >> take us to break.

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he will announce which team he'll play for. he contract with the cleveland cavaliers ran out at the end of season, new york knicks, chicago bulls, miami heat all trying to woo him. he announces his decision tonight on an espn special. i'm bringing tony harris off the bench for a two on one fast break with our next guest. >> where's my mark? >> we got to get you in a better spot. >> a little light, just a smidge. >> on the phone is eric snowe, nba tv and former teammate of lebron james. so glad you're with us, too. >> glad to be on. >> you have to school me here because the last time i played basketball was in high school and white women can't jump. >> but you had the dribble drive game? >> i did the best i could. let's get back to lebron james

because i never could play with him. eric, your take. all of this hype, now an espn special. is this just too much or is this just worth it? >> i guess it's worth it because we're all paying attention to it. >> point well made. >> i don't really understand the whole process. he was the guy that was a mega star because all of this, so i think you visit with the teams and make your decision and move on and try to do what your goal is, and that's to within a championship, so i don't think it is necessary. >> espn is the biggest spores network on the planet and he is the biggest sports brand on the planet right now arguably. so it makes sense to see them do it as a decision but i'm curious what you think his decision will be on this. >> i'm still holding onto the hometown area. >> cleveland? >> cleveland. i'm a little disappointed in how it's been handled.

i think the way he's handled it, i think it's great for branding but he hasn't encouraged anyone to go to cleveland, to want to go to cleveland because he won't show his commitment. >> this is as much an economic story as it is about basketball and the championships, and eric knows this for a fact. what cleveland was like before the arrival of king james and what it's been like since, if you talk about the ancillary businesses around the arena and how the city responded to this guy. >> like the green bay packers does for green bay. >> but the team, eric, would you agree that the organization hasn't done enough to build the kind of team around lebron so he can do what you said was the ultimate goal torque win championships? >> if you look at any other team in the league that say we won back-to-back 60 straight games, two time mvps and have a young team with salary cap space and

the ability to have an owner willing to spend over the luxury tax, willing to make trades to win. >> who have they signed, eric? who have they signed in the free agency period? who have they signed? >> my point is they haven't signed anyone because he hasn't signed. guys are not going to commit if he doesn't commit and that's why i say i think he went about it the wrong way. if he committed, they would commit. most guys won't commit because he won't commit. >> you are a former teammate of lebron james. what was it like to play with him? what do you think he will do? where will his heart move? is it money, fame, hometown? what do you think? >> he's a great dude to play with, great knowledge of the game, great talent. i firmly believe his heart wants to stay in cleveland, but i'm not sure that everything else, the exterior of him wants to stay in cleveland. i know that the financial ramifications of the city of

cleveland affects him. i know that -- you know, him and his brand has done a lot for that area. >> yeah. >> the businesses, the restaurants, and the livelihood of a lot of people is based on lebron james being there. before he went there, half of the seats were full. now they sell out every game. his jersey is selling, they sell products. forbes had it one of the top five franchises in the nba. so he's done a great thing for that area, so it will be devastating. i do know that affects him. >> i cannot believe, iric, you are suggesting he should have committed early. if you were in this position, would you have walked it out to the end. >> i would have committed and spent my energy and time trying to get other people to come to me. >> when eric says it, i believe it. >> i believe eric. the new york knicks season tickets, sold out. thank you. stay in touch with us.

i know we'll talk about this a lot more. >> stick around, i'm going to call you next hour. >> sing basketball and take us to the break. ♪ he's playing basketball ♪ ♪ d ssiliefoow fit ckop t dr, rsretsvethg. ♪ rsmos fwa ft. fit ckop t dr,

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scotland was sent home over a year ago with three months to live. scottish officials sent him home to lib bra to die, compassionate release they say. turns out he was sent home to live. the man who cheated 270 people out of their lives now cheating his own death. that brings us to today's blog question. do you think killers should ever be released on compassionate grounds. nate says this. compassion? where was his compassion for those individual lives? no, i don't believe it compassion for any murderer. from greg, convicted killers should be treated with the same compassion they had for their victims. this one from father of pan a.m. 103 victim karen lee hunt. i want to thank you for writing in. you say, we knew this was a sham when he was released last year.

the scottish government should be ashamed of themselves. she was one of 35 syracuse university students on that flight. she was only 20 years old. we want to hear from you. log onto cnn.com/kyra and share your comments with us. thank you for spending this day. tony harris will pick it up from here. ...in your skin. [ female announcer ] aveeno introduces ageless vitality. as skin ages, elastin fibers break down. this exclusive bio-mineral concentrate system has active naturals ingredients shown to multiply elastin's elements. i'm impressed. the study showed improved firmness, texture, wrinkles or spots in 100% of women. how uplifting is that? [ female announcer ] new ageless vitality. save $20 at aveeno.com. that's the beauty of nature and science. my sunglasses. ♪

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